Definition of Contain

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Contain

To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.

To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.

To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

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Contain Quotations

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Mark Twain

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Muhammad Ali

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
Walt Whitman

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
Stephen Hawking

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
Marcel Proust

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
Rabindranath Tagore

Contain Translations

contain in Afrikaans is bevat
contain in Danish is indeholde
contain in Dutch is bevatten, inhouden, behelzen
contain in French is contenez, contiens, contenons, contiennent
contain in German is enthalten, einbinden, enthalten
contain in Latin is contineo
contain in Portuguese is conter
contain in Spanish is contener

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